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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Chapter 115.
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AN ACT to give and declare the sanction and con-
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sent of the General Assembly of Maryland to the
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devise and bequest of Lewis Merryman, late of
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Baltimore county, deceased, to the Trustees of the
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Methodist Episcopal Church, commonly called
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and known as the Govanstown Methodist Episco-
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pal Church, and to the Trustees of the Metho-
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dist Episcopal Church located in Waverly, both
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of said churches being in Baltimore county.
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WHEREAS Lewis Merryman, late of Baltimore
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county, deceased, by his will and testament duly
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admitted to probate by the Orphans' Court of Balti-
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more county on the twenty-sixth day of April, A. D.
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eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and duly recorded
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in the office of the Register of Wills for Baltimore
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county, in "Wills," liber J. B. M., number six, folio
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two hundred and fifty-eight, etc., among other things
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and bequests and devises, willed, bequeathed and
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Preamble.
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devised as follows, to wit : " I give and bequeath to
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the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
commonly called and known as the Govanstown
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Methodist Church, and also the Trustees of the
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Methodist Episcopal Church located in Waverly,
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both churches being in Baltimore county, two thou-
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sand dollars, to be equally divided between the trus-
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tees of the two aforenamed churches, who shall
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invest in some safe and productive securities these
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legacies, the interest whereof is to be applied forever
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to the use of the aforenamed churches; these lega-
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cies to be paid after the decease of my wife Ellen
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W. Merryman;" therefore —
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That the sanction and consent of
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the General Assembly of Maryland be and the same
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is hereby given, granted, and declared to the afore-
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said devise and bequest, devises and bequests of
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Sanction and
consent given.
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Lewis Merryman, late of Baltimore county, deceased,
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to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
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commonly called and known as the Govanstown
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Methodist Church, and the Trustees of the Metho-
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